SSO authentication #240
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It seems that most institutions have moved to SAML SSO. Does NEMO support this? Any way to integrate SSO to NEMO? |
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NEMO itself does not deal with authentication. The easiest way to use SSO with NEMO is by having SAML authentication done in Apache or Nginx and have them set a "remote user" header with the username of the authenticated user. in NEMO's
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Thank you so mcuh! That sounds awesome! |
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if you are using shibboleth like many facilities/universities, we also provide a version of nginx that will work with that: |
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NEMO itself does not deal with authentication.
The easiest way to use SSO with NEMO is by having SAML authentication done in Apache or Nginx and have them set a "remote user" header with the username of the authenticated user.
in NEMO's
settings.py, you can then:"NEMO.middleware.HTTPHeaderAuthenticationMiddleware"to middlewaresAUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS = ["NEMO.views.authentication.RemoteUserAuthenticationBackend"].AUTHENTICATION_HEADER = "AUTHENTICATION"(to fetch the username from theHTTP_AUTHENTICATIONheader)